24 Dec 1921
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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1921
Page
1
A catalog note describes umbrellas with tape-edge Gloria fabric, sturdy frames, and a range of handles from plain to carved, leather, ivory, and wrist cords. Available in many shapes sizes and materials, including fine French kids fabric in multiple colors. They promise to solve gift problems with assorted plain and striped options.
A note on Hi m lineup highlights gifts for men including umbrellas with wooden handles a brown fleece lined auto glove with wrist strap and lighter weight dress gloves in mocha kid and buck leather.
Leather footwear described for men and women in brown and black cowhide. Prices range from eight to fifteen dollars, indicating affordable galoshed leather styles or daily wear shoes. Availability and sizes not specified.
A catalog style listing highlights ladies handbags table linen napkins towels sweaters luncheon sets and blankets as available items for purchase or display in the department store.
Slippers in gift assortments described as cozy warm and practical with gay colors and silk trimming. A heavy felt high-cut slipper priced at 2.25 dollars and a tan Romeo style at 3 dollars.
Robert Fulaine is helped by Mrs. Denton to pursue a shy neighbor after a late night encounter. He drives the girl home and plans to see her again, then signals his success by dropping pebbles to alert his neighbor to his new romance.
Excerpts from Let ters to Nobody recount a colonial era visit to a governor’s staff and a surgeon famed in India. The narrator recalls a leopard cub kept on a veranda, a striking doglike creature gliding between legs, and eerie leopard eyes that seem to see through him.
In a tale of longing and self discovery, John Wade, nearly forty, realizes his lifelong devotion to Jessica Brandt, a married woman he never met, but his awakening arrives only after a chance encounter and the steady, candid care of Ann Perdue. Ann reveals a deeper love, telling John that a past phantom can power a true future, and he embraces a dawn after a long night.
A four year old boy named Billy gazes at a candy shop window. An elderly passerby offers him a penny to buy candy, which Billy accepts with a brightened smile. He asks if the man will be there tomorrow at the same time, showing a hopeful, simple moment of small-town kindness.
A Birmingham Age-Herald item recounts a playful classroom moment where a student notes his father could not spell please, sparking a humorous exchange about spelling in the home and school.
English law punishes swearing with fines set by rank ranging from one shilling for day laborers to five shillings for gentlemen with offenses doubling per repeat. A constable may arrest profane swearers and bring them before a justice, as a man once was fined two shillings for each of twenty oaths. Scotland also had a similar legal approach.
Geneva, notable for its size yet vast historical role, has long been seen as a potential international headquarters. The city has served as a refuge for outcasts and earned remarks from Talleyrand about its global significance. Lord Rosebery’s ties to Geneva trace through the Stanhope family tablet at Saint-Gervais, noting a Stanhope who settled there in 1760 and became an ancestor of Rosebery.
The Cleveland Press reflects on progress from oil lamps to electric rooms. It recalls grandparents washing lamp globes and trimming wicks, and notes generations since France taxed windows. The piece counsels appreciating modern comforts and the hardships avoided by not being born in earlier times.
A nostalgic lament in verse about a motor boat once cherished and costly to maintain. The speaker recalls the boat’s gaudy paint and joyful rides, now worn and failing. Financial strain follows, with yearning to buy another boat if funds allowed.
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